Religious tinkering: "the joining together of seemingly inconsistent, disparate components.... What first seems like straightforwardly orthodox belief, such as the view that the Bible is inerrant, turns out to be a jumble of orthodoxy and more relativistic assumptions about truth, salvation, and civility." While God cares about our daily concerns, God's action in our lives is not as a butler or a problem solver. It is much more expansive than that. Indeed, at times we are called to activities that seem useless to us yet enter into the larger work of God's kingdom. Ironically, while many Christian leaders helps to cultivate the culture of religious tinkering because it seems relevant and applicable, it is also a significant cause of nominal Christianity. Self-centered faith quickly becomes small and dull, easy to jettison when another device for problem solving comes along. If we want to expand the context of our Christian life beyond a narrow preoccupation...